CITY COLLEGE NEW YORK: FROM
TRADITION TO CUTTING EDGE

Whether you are
interested in the oldest of humanity s scholarly endeavors, or the hot
new fields of tomorrow s global economy, you ll find your place at The
City College of New York, a senior college of the City University of New York and the nation s first institution of public higher education. And
you don t have to assume tens of thousands of dollars of college debt to
do it!

If you love music, for
example, you can study composition with a Pulitzer Prize-winning
composer or jazz with an American jazz master. Or you can
specialize in the sonic arts, preparing for a career in broadcast,
studio or Internet audio recording in a state-of-the art studio facility
unmatched in the region.

As an artist, you can
study painting, photography or sculpture, or you can choose the
high_tech route, learning electronic/web design in a multimedia arts
program under the direction of a nationally known Internet artist.

At the Grove School of
Engineering you can pursue traditional programs in chemical, civil,
electrical and mechanical engineering and Computer science or you
might want to follow our new interdisciplinary degree program in
computer engineering to combine an interest in hardware and software.
Or take advantage of the School s new Center for Biomedical Engineering,
which boasts a faculty described by evaluators from MIT as among the
best in the nation.

The School of
Architecture offers not only the 5-year professional Bachelor s of
Architecture, but also two masters programs in architecture and urban
design, and one of the few urban landscape architecture programs
in the country.

These are just a few of
the more than 150 undergraduate and graduate degree programs including
thirteen of the City University of New York s doctoral programs that
you can find at City College. In fact, CCNY is really a small
university, with a College of Liberal Arts and Science and four
professional schools: City s School of Architecture, Urban Design and
Landscape Architecture the only public school of architecture in New York City naturally emphasizes the urban experience in the midst of
one of the greatest built environments in the world; the Grove School of
Engineering and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education are
nationally known; and our School of Education is a major feeder into the
New York City public school system.

Last year CCNY faculty
attracted nearly $45 million in grant support from government,
non-profit and private agencies. Our students benefit directly from
this rich research capability; City College has the largest student
research program in the region, where even undergraduates work with
world-renowned faculty mentors on leading-edge research in such areas as
cancer and AIDs, laser optics and molecular modeling. With the new CUNY
Honors College at City as well as the New York State Center for
Structural Biology on our south campus CCNY students will have more to
choose from than ever.

At City College, you are
joining a community of learners and scholars and alumni whose
achievements have been and continue to be outstanding. Nine CCNY alumni
have won the Nobel Prize; eleven of our faculty are currently members of
the prestigious National Academies of Science and of Engineering; and
CCNY ranks 11th nationally in the number of alumni who have
gone on to become America s leading business executives. Today s
graduates can be found in top graduate schools, as well as in the fine
and performing arts, business, government, architecture, education,
medicine and law. Our present students are continuing this record of
achievement. 2005 Intel Science Prize winner David Bauer could have
gone anywhere, but he chose City College. And last fall another CCNY
alumnus, Rhodes Scholar Lev Sviridov, began his doctoral work at Oxford!

Following are just a few
of the programs that put City College on the map:

Outstanding students from around the nation in the
new CUNY Honors College receive full tuition, fees and book
allowance for four years; special interdisciplinary seminars using
NYC as resource and text; a "cultural passport" providing entr e to
the riches of New York City, including concerts, theater, art,
science and history museums and galleries - keyed to an enhanced
curriculum built around these experiences; and Internships and
undergraduate research opportunities and mentoring in the arts,
sciences, business and government that will prepare you for the best
graduate schools in the nation, and for top careers.

Research centers like the College s Institute for
Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers, one of the world s leading laser
research centers, give students and faculty the opportunity for
cutting-edge research, such as groundbreaking progress in developing
safer approaches to X-ray mammography and tomography in order to
detect tumors without invasive procedures.

The Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies is
dedicated to the research and public discussion of social policy
issues that affect the quality of life and promote social justice
and economic development. Powell Fellows - students who excel in
conflict resolution, community service or foreign affairs are
prepared roles as future leaders and policy makers through service
learning programs around the city and around the world. The Powell
Center is also play a central role in a program to recruit
minorities into the Foreign Servicethat is being developed
with the support of Congressmen Charles Rangel and Jose Serrano.

CCNY
is the site of the New York Structural Biology Center, a world-class
research facility that brings together eminent scientists to explore
life at the cellular level.

New York State is putting a half a billion dollars into new science and
architecture facilities at CCNY and the first residence hall in the
College s history opens on South Campus in the Fall of 2006.

The
Center for Worker Education offers adults who work full-time the
opportunity to pursue their degree in the evenings and on Saturdays.